Author: cparker
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Mac Smith, Scurry
Mac Smith is is a concept artist and illustrator who has largely put aside his work in the gaming industry to concentrate on his own comics project. Scurry is a post-apocalyptic survival story in which the protagonists are mice. The setting is an abandoned house and the surrounding woods, now mysteriously devoid of humans. With…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Hughes grapevines
Grapevines, White and Grapevines, Red, William Hughes Two panels of a diptych, oil and gold paint on canvas, each roughly 40 x 17 inches (100 x 44 cm). The source for the images is an auction house, so I assume these are now in a privete collection. Of the two panels, that of the white…
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Daniel Blimes
Daniel Blimes is a Los Angeles based painter whose current work is a series of portraits, faces and figures rendered in oil in a fascinatingly textural approach. Many of the works are almost monochromatic save for key passages, others are rich with subtle variations in color. His textures combine striations, stipple and linear geometric marks…
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Historic paintings and drawings of Notre-Dame de Paris
When my wife and I first arrived in Paris in 2002, evening was descending as we checked into our B&B and it was dark when we went out for our first stoll in Paris. We were staying in the area of the Botanical Gardens, and it was a short walk down to the quay by…
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Paulo J. Mendes
Paulo J. Mendes is an avid urban sketcher based in Matosinhos, Portugal. His blog and Instagram feed have a subheading of “Stealing landscapes with a sketchbook”. I’m not sure if that’s intentional or an algorithmic translation for something more like “capturing landscapes”. (The original Portuguese reads: “A roubar paisagens com um caderno”.) [Addendum: a Portugese…
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Eye Candy for Today: Martin Johnson Heade – Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth
Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth, Martin Johnson Heade Oil on canvas, roughy 15 x 24 inches (54 x 77 cm) Link is to Wikimedia Commons page with access to high a resolution image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project. The original is in the collection of The Museum of Fine…